SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Breast cancer survivors often have a functional limitation, which doesn't hurt their cancer survival, but increases their risk of dying, researchers say.
Dejana Braithwaite of the University of California, San Francisco, says breast cancer survivors with functional limitations affecting motion, strength and dexterity do not have an increased risk of dying from breast cancer, but they do have an increased risk of dying from other causes.
The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, finds 39 percent of the participants reported at least one limitation following initial treatment. The study also finds breast cancer survivors with functional limitations that affect motion, strength, and dexterity are at the same risk of dying from a recurrence of breast cancer as physically fit survivors but are more likely to die from other causes.
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